MiKaela Barker

This research gets called "AI" now because that's the latest buzzword. 5 years ago it would've been called "machine learning" (the term the researchers themselves use, although the magazine writer calls it AI). In the oughts it would've been called "big data." Before that, "time-series forecasting."

I need to be taken seaside for these horrid coughing fits are driving me to hysteria.

A tiny little floofy white dog that looks like it weighs five pounds sopping wet sits very polite looking slightly nervous in a little clear raincoat with blue pipping. Next to a foot ignore the foot

Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass

Oh I WILL be making my boop squishy a labubu skin now.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

My managers are going to drive me to self immolation, holy hell, this is a level of stress I absolutely cannot stand.

How long did it take to become a conservator once you decided that was the career path for you?

if you don’t spend several hours a day on your phone you’ll miss all the Crap and Bullshit

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Dress for the job you want (Dracula); not the job you have (Office Manager at a Credit Union).

I don't like the current regime watching me, and don't care to know more than I am forced to.

Blocking is the way of Bluesky! 🫰

(List makes it easy to un-block once they are all out of office.)

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "holy shit i hate all of this"

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

A white girl, 18, with two long pigtail braids sits in front of a planter full of tulips. She is wearing a new lipstick with sunglasses pushed up on her forehead. San Fransisco, March 2017.

A girl lays back on the floor looking at her phone. She is surrounded by two large Afghan hound dogs - her beloved pets - one black and one cream. She has a silly winking expression.

She deserved so much more than this. She was so soft and still had such big dreams.

I long for an era where I wasn't actively in a rock slide, clawing into the dirt and ripping my nails off, just to attempt to stay in place - let alone may any sort of positive moment in a preferable direction

"antifa is destroying america"
Girl if you don't grab yourself by the scalp and pull your head up long enough to see anti-fascists are clawing and pounding at the walls to try and make us all not literally die, I will do it myself.

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I grew up crazy sheltered, so am "catching up" with a lot of old horror media. But because of *gestures broadly* I've been finding a lot of comfort in the creepy nonsense.

Anyway my B just walked into my home office space to me listening to an almost 4 hr video essay on the Saw franchise.

My personal fav is probably SUSAN. Or BORAX. They are done without flair but they are Everywhere.

Like yeah that's the nonsense I fell in love with Seattle about. Makes me smile every time I see them because I feel like there's a good story in there

I long for a world when a university was surrounded by cheap rent, cheaper drinks, and we all smoked like we couldn't read the literature about it killing us.

(I am mourning institutions of higher learning as their leaders bend the knee to the Almighty Dollar - like everything else.)

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is

- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)

- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)

- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

I don’t mourn Charlie Kirk much, though I do feel empathy for those who cared for him. But I am grievously concerned for what is going to happen to this country next, because political violence never rests easy on the marginalized.

Everyday that I am stuck behind a computer, chained pointlessly to the hours of a 9-5 as if it means anything in the modern work structure, I am slowly animorphing to a cow stuck in a cow grate.

I think we are going to see this at the state level as well. The austerity measures coming out of Olympia are just weakening Washington's systems. And it's also going to backfire and we will also be spamming the "undo" button in just a few months.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

A drawing of women in various kinds of henin (French medieval headwear)

The club should look like this

(As they put a pistol to my head) I urge my elected officials to make a strongly worded statement about this, this is not who we are

Shocking lack of reporting on how this will or will not affect the four nearly-identical flower stands across the market.

Does it count as a purchase if it aids in the Ambiance by carrying a bouquet in your tote bag?

I want one of our news babes FOIA this whole shit show. There's absolutely no way that this wasn't dirty from the get-go.